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Quick! Go to philly.com. Scroll all the way down to the bottom. Check out the poll. (You can see it here, too.) Do you see what sender-inner Wyn saw, leading him to (a) "laugh shamefully hard" and and (b) email Proofreading Philly? That's right. "Justiculations."

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You know how we're always popping in right about here to tell you what you can't miss? Well, to miss this would be downright irresponsible. More importantly, it would rob you of every American's fundamental right to demand change, to join together in one of two (or any one of several decidedly quieter, although no less vital, third party) voices and express yourself in the most important venue there is: the voting booth.

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While pundits foam at the mouth debating who’s getting the black vote, the white vote, the women’s vote, and the young vote, Phillyist only cares about who’s getting your vote. The results from our People’s Choice Endorsement are in, and there’s no need to argue over superdelegates—Barack Obama is the winner by a landslide, with 68% of the vote. So much for the most recent professional poll results predicting a statistical tie between him and Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primaries. Was it the bowling?

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Like most of you, I'm sure, Phillyist has been gratified to see Sen. Rick Santorum make the long, occasionally hilarious journey to the private sector. Bob Casey has led in the polls since the race began, the national GOP is already planning on a loss in Pennsylvania, and Santorum himself is pinning his last hopes on the critical WWE Smackdown contingent. Meanwhile, when the GM told Lynn Swann to make a Political Aptitude check, the dude didn't exactly roll a natural twenty.

think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for?

- Last week it was identity theft, this week's crime - dealing illicit prescription drugs.
- And speaking of drug-dealing - what's worse than getting picked up by the cops for alleged drug trafficking? Maybe getting picked up for having "weapons of mass destruction" when the cops come to your apartment and find you have "a two-liter plastic soda bottle, covered with duct tape, with a several-inch long fuse sticking out of the spout" - or, a "condom bomb." Whatever that is. All we know is that no one wants to be around when a condom explodes unexpectedly.
- Poor Rocky. The placement of his effigy is once again under debate. To add insult to injury, journalists are using this battle as an excuse to trot out their limited boxing lingo in all the headlines.
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• 13-year-old Naiym Muhammed is being charged as an adult in the Sunday fire in Germantown that killed a 17-year-old girl and critically injured her mother. The charges against Muhammed include murder, arson, conspiracy. More charges are expected. Police say the fire was set in retribution over a small debt.
• Some local Dems are finding it a little harder to support Bob Casey, Jr. in the up-coming primary. Both Casey and PA Governor Ed Rendell announced their support for Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Many are concerned about how a woman's right to choose her own medical care might be affected should Alito's nomination be approved by the full Senate. PA Senator Arlen Specter, a self-proclaimed pro-choice Republican, voted to approve Alito's nomination during judiciary commitee hearings.
• Apparently, the general public may simply be too stupid to understand the difference between "Ben Station" and "Penn Station". We're told tourism officials in Philly are wary of renaming 30th Street to honor Ben Franklin because there might be some confusion. From what we hear, there's already confusion, so what's the difference? It really doesn't matter, because the Pew Charitable Trusts has decided not to pursue the name change.

Phillyist has been watching Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum very closely. Santorum, up for reelection next year, has made quite a name for himself as a super religious conservative and has been sinking in the polls for quite some time. In an effort to shimmy to the middle and appeal to a wider range of voters, Santorum completely reversed his previous pro-death penalty stance this past Summer and has now flip-flopped his position on Intelligent Design.

With Election Tuesday finally upon us, Phillyist is relieved. Really relieved. We could not take one more Jon Corzine or Doug Forrester commercial. These aren't even Philly politicians accusing each other of running over their own mothers in the street -- can't they keep that crap in Jersey? Aren't we going to be barraged with screeching, tiresome politicals ads enough during the upcoming mid-term election scuffles?

Philadelphians will go to the polls next Tuesday. Like any good, civic-minded resident, we're sure that you'll be there bright and early, clutching your voter registration card excitedly, ready to participate in democracy!